CNN anchor and debate moderator Candy Crowley joined CNNs panel after the debate to discuss a moment where she corrected Mitt Romney after he claimed that President Barack Obama had refused to characterize the attack in Libya an act of terror for 14 days. Crowley said that Romneys was right in that the Obama administration spent weeks refusing to say that the attack was terrorism, but she thought at the time that he picked the wrong word.

I heard the president speak at the time. I, sort of, reread a lot of stuff about Libya because I knew wed probably get a Libya question so I kind of wanted to be up on it, said Crowley. I knew that the president had said, you know, these acts of terror wont stand. Or, whatever the whole quote was.

Right after that I did turn around and say, but youre totally correct that they spent two weeks telling us this was about a tape and that that there was this riot outside the Benghazi consulate which there wasnt, Crowley added.

He was right in the main, I just think he picked the wrong word, Crowley concluded. She went on to say that her instinct forced her to correct Romney even though his thrust was correct.

i saw her say this and i still don’t understand what she means by, “picked the wrong word.” who picked the wrong word? Romney? Obama? who is she to say someone picked the wrong word? i knew it was a mistake to not have her adhere to the same rules the candidates agreed to...

God works in mysterious ways.... interjecting herself, and being wrong, will keep this alive in the media until the next debate. Let them debate the semantics on TV the next few days. Not what Obama wanted.

And Mitt will be well prepared for it next week.

3 weeks from now, Obama will have conceded. And Mitt will be president elect. Wow.

Only Obama and Crowley seem to know about the alleged utterance. As far as the rest of the World is concerned, he spent at least two weeks trashing free speech without any direct reference to a terror angle.

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posted on 10/16/2012 10:26:14 PM PDT
by Gene Eric
(Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)

He was right in the main, I just think he picked the wrong word, Crowley concluded. She went on to say that her instinct forced her to correct Romney even though his thrust was correct.

She had no business "correcting" ANYONE.

She's just an obvious party hack, doing what Rats do best - completely RAPING the responsibility they've been given, and then claiming victimhood, in order to CHEAT on behalf of their political faction. Gee, what a freeking surprise - a gutter rat BEING a gutter rat.

What an absolute piece of utter garbage she is - personally and professionally.

First Obama hides behind Hilary’s skirts, then seems quite pleased to see Candy Crowley jump right in there and help him debate Mitt. I am surprised Michelle Obama didn’t jump up there and take over the debate for him. What a wuss we have for a President.

Amen! obama never answered it. I wish the man who asked the question would have interupted Romney and said “Excuse me, Governor, but Mr. obama has not answered my question. I’ll ask it again. Who made the decision to deny more security for Benghazi and did you know about the request and that it was rejected?”

“......Responding to Crowleys intervention, Obama said: ‘Candy, could you say that a little louder?’ That tense moment saw the audience burst into a round of applause - despite rules meant to restrict any displays of partisanship from the crowd.....”

When Obama speaks ex cathedra, it is more than a simple lie. It becomes infallible doctrine that must be adopted by the entire party in order to preserve the fiction that Barack Obama is intelligent, truthful, and competent to be President.

An example of this type of statement is when he said in an early Democrat Primary debate in 2008 that he would talk directly with Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and that by doing so, he could defuse Irans nuclear and terror export programs. Instead of walking this statement back the next day, he enshrined this error as a cornerstone of his campaign and it became the fundamental weakness of his Presidential foreign policy.

Another example of this is his oft repeated promise that "If you like your doctor, you can keep him!" This was clearly and demonstrably not true under Obamacare, and the inability of the patient to continue current arrangements remains one of the primary reasons people resist the implementation of the rule. But Obama made this statement so absolutely and so emphatically that every Democrat was required to pretend it was true.

And now we come to his statement in last night's debate, full of bluster and high dungeon, that the suggestion that anybody in his team, whether the Secretary of State, our U.N. Ambassador, or anybody else, would play politics or mislead when we've lost four of our own, is offensive, and not what he does as President or Commander in Chief. This statement now becomes the new Reality According to Barack Obama. Unfortunately for the President, it is easily contradicted by any of a thousand easily verifiable sources. Defending this statement is going to lead to endless contradiction and will only make the President look like even more of a manipulative liar.

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posted on 10/17/2012 3:35:59 AM PDT
by Haiku Guy
(If Hillary reminds every man of his ex-wife, Joe Biden reminds every woman of her ex-husband.)

What she really means with "the wrong word," is an indirect "non-apology" that she was preset with her hair trigger (almost certainly coordinated in her prep with Obama-connected CNN folk) for a Romney claim that Benghazi was referenced by Barr as being something other than "terror".

She was gonna cover for Barry by turning the pre-election thinking--just as she did--by an attempt to spread the President's general use of the word "terror" into his description on Day Two of the debacle instead of day Fifteen and after the lie of the video. It was intended really to throw the election back to Barry! She was prepared to be as forceful as she turned out to be at that moment, but she didn't expect the pushback from (God and) Romney.

She had (Satan's) visions of making the entire Democrat Party beHOLDEN to her and watching her career take a meteoric rise in a second Obama term!

Here is what Romney should have said. I penned this in two minutes off the top of my head.

“Mr. President - spare me your lecture. Your record speaks for itself. You have failed to attend 3/4 of your intel briefings opting for golf and fundraising instead, your admn denied the Benghazi embassy the requested added security on at least 4 occasions, as the embassy was under attack you jetted off to a fundraiser in Las Vegas and a photo op on The View as well as a fundraiser w Jay Z. You proceeded to blame a non-existent youtube video at the UN and spent $74,000 of taxpayer money on ads in Arabic on pakistani TV to apologize for said video. The FBI was not on the scene for 3 weeks while CNN was able to secure the Diary of Ambassador Stevens the day after the attack. And now you hide behind Hillary Clinton who has said she will not be serving a second term and have the gaul to lecture us? Mr. President shame on you. Americans deserve better than the incompetent and faiiled and non-existent leadership you provide. That is going to change when I am elected President three weeks from now.”

Strange twist, but true. And the next debate is on foreign policy. This time Romney should be prepared to counter the BS “I’m insulted you think me or my people are politicizing this” tactic Zero used. Of course you were politicizing, assclown. Why else would send Rice to five news shows on Sunday to say it was about a retarded video? Insulted? Here’s a free phone card, call somebody who gives a shi’ite.

Pissy Mathews made a comment about how brave Crowley was to call out Romney and “imagine if she had been wrong.” Well, Pissy, SHE says she was wrong. Of course in your little brain I’m sure you think she’s wrong about that. Sucks to be a liberal asshat, doesn’t Pissy?

Using the word “terrorism” in a speech is not the same as calling the attack terrorism. Crowley, in her zeal to defend her idol, Obama, gave up her role as referee, and attempted to trip Romney. When all of the instant analyses are long over and forgotten, Sycophant Crowley and her team of democrat bed wetters at CNN will end up the loosers in this debate.

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posted on 10/17/2012 5:21:26 AM PDT
by norwaypinesavage
(Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)

Using the word “terrorism” in a speech is not the same as calling the attack terrorism. Crowley, in her zeal to defend her idol, Obama, gave up her role as referee, and attempted to trip Romney. When all of the instant analyses are long over and forgotten, Sycophant Crowley and her team of democrat bed wetters at CNN will end up the loosers in this debate.

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posted on 10/17/2012 5:22:52 AM PDT
by norwaypinesavage
(Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)

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